I plan on fishing square billed crankbaits this year. I want to bounce them of stumps and submerged wood. What type of line do you suggest using?

What ever line you feel comfortable with. It's not a light line technique IMHO. Personaly I use braid, usually 30, sometimes 20, sometimes 50. Before I used braid, I used 15lb Trilene Big Game mono, 20 if I had to keep them real shallow.

I personally am not a fan of braid for cranking. It sounds to me like 12 or 15lb P-line cxx is just what you're looking for.

12lb yozuri hybrid

i use plain ol spider wire 20 # mono

now for crankbaits i use kvd 1.5 black back chart. and just ordered the 12 piece kit from bass pro already caught 3 nice bass about 3 weeks ago my first few bass of the year

12lb yozuri hybrid

x2

Yo-Zuri Hybrid x3

I use YZH line for all my needs. I use 12lb and 6lb

I use 17lb mono for squarebills

20 or 30lb braid for all my cranking.

I'm on the Yozuri Hybrid team. I use that for all of my setups.

12# P-Line CXX.

12# P-Line CXX.

x2. Actually I use 10# most of the time because it is so strong and abrasion resistant. I tend to go lighter than most when fishing mono though.

I just happen to have 12# on the rod I use for shallow cranks. 10# is probably easier to manage, and will work fine, too.

Go flurocarbon...if you are fishing around stumps or you want to keep the lure higher in the water column, than fish 20 lb test. If you want them to run a little deeper and are fishing sparser cover than go down to 12-15 lb. However square bills do excel around wood, so maybe compromise and call it 17 lb if you only want to choose one line

14lb Sunline FC Sniper

I am using 20lb Sunline FC Sniper. All of my squarebill fishing is around wood and I have had no issues so far.

What ever line you feel comfortable with. It's not a light line technique IMHO. Personaly I use braid, usually 30, sometimes 20, sometimes 50. Before I used braid, I used 15lb Trilene Big Game mono, 20 if I had to keep them real shallow.

^^ This. Except I usually use 12#.

Tom

You can use any line your comfortable with. I use 8 lb flouro or mono and have never had a single problem. Plus with lighter line you can get the crankbait a little deeper then with heavier line.

I like 10 pound Vicious Fluoro for square bills.

15lb Pline CXX or 14lb McCoy Mean Green, I like the copolymer for square bills. Braid is too unforgiving and cost me some fish by taking it away on the strike. Those two also hold up to being banged around the cover pretty well.

I like 15# copolymer for its buoyancy over grass , sometimes 17. This year I'm trying McCoy mean green.

12lb P-line CX

Guess I am a light-line guy. I use 10# mono for almost all of my crankbaits, including square bills. Never had a problem.

10-12# Seaguar Abrasx